SPEAKERS
Andrew Carr
Co-founder, Community Nuclear Power Ltd (CNP) & Chief Legal Officer, Green Lizard Power to Liquids Ltd
Andrew is a co-founder of Community Nuclear Power Ltd (CNP) and the Chief Legal Officer for Green Lizard Power to Liquids Ltd. CNP is deploying Small Modular Reactors at a former chemical site in North Teesside, working with an SMR technology partner and the landowner to deliver heat and power to a green fuels and chemicals hub. CNP intends to deploy the UK's first privately owned SMR site.
As the former General Counsel for Sellafield Ltd, Andrew is one of the UK's most experienced nuclear lawyers, with over 20 years of experience across various nuclear licensed sites. He has extensive knowledge of legal and governance aspects of nuclear licensing and permitting, advising on national and international nuclear regulations. He excels in creating compliant arrangements for high hazard organisations and delivering major projects and programmes across the nuclear industry.
Andrew Murdoch
Director of Project Delivery, Centrica Power
Andrew Murdoch is Director of Project Delivery for Centrica Power where he has leadership responsibility for the execution of projects across the sector, including playing a key role in driving forwards Centrica’s activities in Advanced Nuclear and the Hartlepool AMR project. With over 25 years in the power sector, Andrew has significant experience across UK nuclear new build development including GW scale and S/AMR technologies.
He has a strong track record of building and leading multi‑disciplinary international teams, setting up major capital programmes from early definition through to execution, and establishing complex partnerships and joint ventures. Andrew started his career with a degree in Materials Engineering.
Arjan Geveke
Director, Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG)
Arjan Geveke is Director of the Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG), an umbrella organisation that represents the interests of energy intensive industrial consumers in the UK. Before he joined the EIUG, he spent 15 years working on energy and climate change policies in Government.
He holds an MA in Public Policy and Public Administration from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and a MSc in European Policy & Management from Birkbeck College, UK.
Carrie Leadbeater-Hart
Nuclear Specialist Advisor, Department for Business and Trade
Carrie Leadbeater-Hart is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 25 years’ experience delivering consultancy and leadership across the UK’s most complex and highly regulated nuclear environments. Her career spans civil nuclear, defence, decommissioning, and fusion, where she has consistently led large-scale, high-value programmes that align technical delivery with national strategy.
Currently serving as a Nuclear Specialist Advisor to the Department for Business and Trade, Carrie provides strategic and technical counsel on Advanced Nuclear Technologies, supporting the UK’s competitiveness and global trade partnerships. Previously, she was Defence Framework Director at Jacobs for AWE’s £Bn Capital Programme, and Interim Director of JET Decommissioning and Repurposing for the UK Atomic Energy Authority, where she defined the strategic business case for the £500m JET Fusion Reactor decommissioning programme.
Carrie has held senior leadership roles at Magnox, the Office for Nuclear Regulation, and Jacobs Engineering, driving major infrastructure programmes from concept to completion. Strategically astute and commercially experienced, Carries approach is grounded in ethical integrity, transparent leadership, and a passion for building capability and resilience across the UK’s nuclear sector.
Christopher Wright
Managing Director, Agilia and Energy Sector Lead
Chris is a Managing Director at Agilia and Energy Sector Lead, with expertise in the development of commercial and regulatory models to support major investment in new build infrastructure projects across the Nuclear, wider Energy, Water and Transport sectors.
Chris leads Agilia’s support to the c.£38bn Sizewell C (SZC) project and over the past 6 years has supported the development of the Nuclear Regulated Asset Base (RAB) model and associated capital raise process with private investors, lenders and credit rating agencies successfully reaching Financial Close in November 2025. He is also advising Great British Energy – Nuclear (GBE-N) on commercial aspects of the UK’s Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Programme including the technology selection process and potential funding and financing approaches.
Chris was awarded the 2025 Partnerships Awards Future Leader of the Year Award and holds a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Oxford.
Colin Hudson
Managing Director, National Wealth Fund
Colin has over 30 years’ experience in advising, structuring and arranging project finance - both as debt provider and equity investor. Colin started his career in Sumitomo Bank as a project finance lender before moving on to take a leading role in project finance in institutions such as PwC, Shell, and latterly Siemens Bank. He joined the UK Infrastructure Bank (now the National Wealth Fund, NWF) from Siemens Bank in the spring of 2023.
Colin’s experience encompasses all aspects of green and brownfield project finance across renewables, energy transmission and storage, transportation, social infrastructure, ports, airports and conventional energy. At the NWF Colin is currently particularly responsible for our activities in the wind, ports, heat networks and nuclear sectors.
David Dodd
(MEng CEng MIMechE)
Engineering Director, Rolls-Royce SMR
A Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Sheffield, David is a Chartered Engineer with over 20 years’ experience at Rolls Royce, working in a variety of systems design integration and senior engineering leadership roles across the Naval Nuclear, Civil Nuclear, Aerospace and Strategic Research areas of the company.
David’s previous roles have included: System Design Integration and Function Lead developing the next generation of naval nuclear propulsion plants; Manager of the Low Carbon Technology and subsequently Marine, Energy and Nuclear Strategic Research Centre of Rolls-Royce; Chief Design Engineer within the Rolls-Royce Civil Nuclear business; and Sub-System Technical Lead developing the next generation control system design for the UltraFan Aero Engine.
David has been in a key leadership position on the Rolls-Royce SMR programme from its inception back in 2015. David became the Chief Design Engineer for the Rolls-Royce SMR during the early phases of work, and following a period in the Aerospace business, returned to the programme in 2019 as Head of Engineering Integration, holding that role for 2 years. David then spent 2 years in the Chief Plant Engineer role, accountable for leading the design of the Rolls-Royce SMR across all areas of the power station, before taking up the Engineering Director position in 2024.
Dr Iain Darby
Head of Strategic Research for the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory
Dr Iain Darby is Head of Strategic Research for the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory. Iain is responsible for the Science & Technology Strategic Research pillar to deliver targeted collaborative interventions sustaining skills and developing capabilities to address key national challenges. He serves as chair of the Global National Laboratories Integrated Energy Systems (GNLIES) collaboration and leads for UKNNL on the Energy Systems Nexus (www.esnexus.org.uk); an industry-funded, industry-led Net Zero collaboration initiative that takes a whole systems approach to delivering robust evidence and cutting-edge analysis for the energy sector.
Prior to joining UKNNL, Iain was Head of the Nuclear Science & Instrumentation Laboratory at the IAEA Laboratories Seibersdorf, Austria. On returning to the UK Iain joined NRS Dounreay where he led Research Development & Innovation activities and served as co-chair of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s Nuclear Waste and Decommissioning Research Forum (NWDRF).
Iain is a chartered physicist and member of the Institute of Physics serving on the Energy, Nuclear Industry and Nuclear Physics special interest groups and holds a honorary researcher position with the School of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. He received both his Master’s degree in Astrophysics and a PhD in Nuclear Physics from Liverpool University.
James Binns
Head of Engineering and Licensing, Holtec Britain
James Binns is Head of Engineering and Licensing for Holtec Britain, where he leads UK regulatory and policy delivery, providing technical and programme leadership while managing relationships with regulators and policy advisors. He played a central role in guiding Holtec Britain through Step 2 of the Generic Design Assessment, a key milestone in the UK deployment of Holtec’s SMR-300.
Prior to joining Holtec, James held roles at Jacobs and Horizon Nuclear Power. At Jacobs, he was seconded to Sizewell C’s Safety Directorate and supported the Submarine Delivery Agency on major technical programmes. At Horizon, he served as Site Licence Manager during submission of the Site Licence Application to the Office for Nuclear Regulation, and as a Senior Project Engineer delivering the ABWR Balance of Plant design. James began his career as a Marine Engineer Submariner in the Royal Navy.
Leon Flexman
Corporate Affairs Director, X-energy
Leon has 30 years’ experience in stakeholder communications and energy project development.
He joined X-energy in January 2023 and oversees the company's Government affairs, stakeholder engagement, communications and public policy activities in support of delivering a programme of Xe-100 reactors in the UK.
Leon was formerly Corporate Affairs Director for Horizon Nuclear Power which sought to build GW scale nuclear power plants on Anglesey and at Oldbury in South Gloucestershire. Before that he spent 7 years at the electricity Utility RWE npower during a period of rapid growth in its renewable and thermal power generation capacity.
He also contributed to the establishment of the UKAEA’s fusion demonstration project STEP, including management of the site selection workstream for all 15 candidate sites.
Lord Iain McNicol
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Iain McNicol of West Kilbride is a member of the House of Lords, trade unionist and Labour life peer who served as the General Secretary of the Labour Party from 2011 to 2018.
In this role, he was legally and operationally responsible for the Labour Party’s electoral and legal operations in the UK. Prior to that, he held the position of National Political Officer of the GMB Union. Iain is a Senior Adviser to The Investing and Saving Alliance (TISA), Chair of the Advisory Board at Rewired Earth and is the current Chair of the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA).
In January 2025 Lord McNicol was appointed as the UK’s Trade Envoy to Kuwait, Jordan, Occupied Palestinian Territories.
He is also a blackbelt in Karate and plays the bagpipes.
Paul Dicks
Director of New Reactors Directorate
Paul is an expert nuclear safety professional with over 30 years’ experience in the civil nuclear and defence sectors.
Paul has recently assumed the role of Director of New Reactors Directorate. In this capacity, he oversees the regulatory strategy for new nuclear build projects, guides the directorate’s technical and policy priorities, and works closely with government and industry partners to enable safe and secure innovation in the sector.
In 2021, Paul was appointed as the Director of Regulation for ONR’s Sellafield, Decommissioning, Fuel, and Waste Division. He was responsible for overseeing the safety and security regulation of 20 nuclear licensed sites across the country. This included Sellafield, one of Europe’s most complex and high-hazard sites, as well as the Nuclear Restoration Services (formerly Magnox and Dounreay) sites, Nuclear Waste Services and various fuel manufacturing, waste treatment facilities.
Since joining ONR in 2010, Paul has held a variety of leadership, assessment and inspection roles across ONR’s Operating Facilities Division, Sellafield Division and Emergency Preparedness and Response team. He has significant experience of the UK’s nuclear licensing regime, government policies, and legislation. Notably, Paul led the project that established the UK State System of Accounting and Control and the ONR Safeguards regulatory team following the UK’s exit from the EURATOM treaty.
Paul has substantial experience of working with partners across the globe to strengthen international frameworks for nuclear safety, security and safeguards. He was appointed by the UK government and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Chair the IAEA Waste Safety Standards Committee, serving a three-year tenure between 2021 and 2024. Under his leadership significant progress was made on the updating and revision of IAEA safety standards. Paul has also led the UK delegation at the IAEA’s Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Wate Management. During his career in the nuclear industry, Paul has also worked at the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment, Harwell and Sellafield, in a range of safety and front line operational and manufacturing roles.
Paul holds a Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Chemistry. He is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health and has been awarded Chartered Radiation Protection Professional status from the Society for Radiological Protection
Philip Haslam
Deputy Director, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Phil Rogers
Co-founder & Director, Equilibrion
Phil Rogers is Co-founder and Director of Equilibrion, a nuclear consulting and project development company. Himself and the wider Equilibrion team have delivered multiple expert nuclear siting studies on behalf of companies within and outside the nuclear sector.
This has reinforced the role of nuclear in the energy transition in a way that aligns with both the EN-7 nuclear siting policy, and the Advanced Nuclear Framework. Phil is a Mechanical Engineer with 20 years background in the nuclear sector and has a PhD in fluid dynamics.
Stephen Tromans
King's Counsel, 39 Essex ChambersMember of Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
Stephen Tromans KC is a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers in London. He is recognised as a leading authority on nuclear law and has advised and acted on many nuclear projects and disputes since 1993. This includes advising on the promotion of schemes for new nuclear power stations at Hinkley Point C, Sizewell B and Wylfa. He has also advised government agencies and departments – the Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy, the Ministry of Defence, and the Environment Agency – as well as the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
As well as his legal expertise he brings a sound knowledge of the nuclear industry and its technologies, and the commercial background. He has a strong interest in emergent nuclear technologies such as small modular reactors and advanced modular reactors. The first edition of his book, Nuclear Law, was published in 1997 and the third edition will be published later this year. For the past 10 years he has been a member of the expert Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, which advises the UK government on the disposal and interim storage of radioactive waste and spent fuel.
Steve Wood
Founder & CEO, Fylde Coast Energy Ltd
Steve Wood is a highly experienced nuclear industry leader with more than 40 years’ experience spanning nuclear new build, decommissioning, defence, chemicals, telecommunications and international property development
As Founder and CEO of Fylde Coast Energy, he is leading the development of the Hillhouse International Clean Energy and Data Park — an integrated programme combining Small Modular Reactor (SMR) deployment with next-generation AI data centre infrastructure.
Steve has a strong track record of building organisations from inception to maturity, securing regulatory confidence, and delivering complex transformation programmes. His previous achievements include developing organisational capability strategies accepted by the UK nuclear regulator, contributing to the UK’s post-Fukushima innovation response, and leading successful business transformation and growth initiatives internationally
He is recognised for his strategic leadership, stakeholder engagement, and commitment to ESG and sustainable development principles, with a focus on delivering clean energy infrastructure that generates long-term economic and social value.
Tom Greatrex
CEO, NIA
Tom Greatrex became Chief Executive of the NIA in 2016. Formerly Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, Tom was shadow energy minister from 2011 – 2015 and served as a member of the Energy Select Committee from 2010 and from 2007-2010 was a policy adviser in the Scotland Office, including on energy.
In a varied prior career, he was a Director of Corporate Affairs for the NHS in Scotland, a chief officer in local government and a GMB trade union official in England. Outside of work his main interests are family, football (Fulham) and film. He is a member of the FA Council, the governing body of English football, vice-chair of the Football Supporters’ Association and a school governor.